Combed Thunderclap? The Library of Babel? I need to investigate this further...
Check out the card about the Library of Babel also...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Progress
As you can see, I've come a long way now from just pieces of wood and screws and wood glue. My cabinet is completely primed and ready to paint! It'll be all black when it is done. Painting will take a long time because of the thin layers I will be using in order to try for the smoothest finish possible. It'll look really nice when all is said and done!Once the cabinet is fully painted, I'll start work on the side, control panel, and marquee artwork. I'm still at odds with myself on what I want it to look like. I want it to say something about myself and my love of games. So, who knows what I'm going to do...
Other things I still have to do: get the computer ready to go; ;get a TV for the display; get my IIDX panel cut and painted; install the coin door; wire the buttons, joystick, and trackball on the control panel; create a base for the subwoofer; install the speakers.
Link to Perplex City Restored!
On Saturday, over one thousand Perplex City players gathered together in San Francisco and online to activate a new link, replacing the link in London that was irreparably destroyed by the Third Power. We only had a few hours to solve a bunch of puzzles created by the Perplex City Academy to activate the SF link. This was intended as a friendly competition between peers, but with the original link destroyed and with a limited time until the reality bending carrier wave that allows the link to exist between our worlds would vanish forever, we had to help each other to solve the numerous puzzles and restore the connection.
With only several minutes remaining, we managed to activate the link in San Francisco and receive a message from Sente Kiteway, the Master of the Perplex City Academy and mastermind behind the plan to enlist our help in finding their Receda Cube. Apparently, at the same time the original signal was knocked out by Third Power operatives on Earth, some Third Power operatives in Perplex City formed a wormhole using stolen parts from the Academy, knocking out the power in Perplex City for ten hours and sending more people to Earth to retrieve the Cube before we do! The apparent leader of the Third Power on Earth sent a cell phone voice message to the players in San Francisco, telling them to go outside of the Palace of Fine Arts, where the competition was held. In a display of power, Third Power operatives flew over the players in two black helicopters.
The race is on to find the Receda Cube before the Third Power does.
With only several minutes remaining, we managed to activate the link in San Francisco and receive a message from Sente Kiteway, the Master of the Perplex City Academy and mastermind behind the plan to enlist our help in finding their Receda Cube. Apparently, at the same time the original signal was knocked out by Third Power operatives on Earth, some Third Power operatives in Perplex City formed a wormhole using stolen parts from the Academy, knocking out the power in Perplex City for ten hours and sending more people to Earth to retrieve the Cube before we do! The apparent leader of the Third Power on Earth sent a cell phone voice message to the players in San Francisco, telling them to go outside of the Palace of Fine Arts, where the competition was held. In a display of power, Third Power operatives flew over the players in two black helicopters.
The race is on to find the Receda Cube before the Third Power does.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Exciting News
I found out today after returning to work that I was accepted for a daystaff position at the Off-Crew Training Group, where I teach students in a classroom setting. Yay!! No more shift work! I start on the 21st of this month.
In other news, the link to Perplex City's web sites has been intercepted by the Third Power! What are they trying to keep us from doing? What is happening in Perplex City while our connection is lost? Hopefully, we can restore the link from San Francisco in two days!!
In other news, the link to Perplex City's web sites has been intercepted by the Third Power! What are they trying to keep us from doing? What is happening in Perplex City while our connection is lost? Hopefully, we can restore the link from San Francisco in two days!!
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Say Goodbye to Perplex City???
The last wave of cards have been released and already nearly all cards are solved! The Receda Cube is still missing somewhere on Earth however, so it is anyone's game. A couple of the cards are giving problems to people however.
The Thirteenth Labour is a RC5 encrypted message that requires decrypting by either guessing the key word, or using brute force to crack the message. In order to accomplish the brute force method, someone created a program that will allow multiple computers through the Internet to work together to find the key to unlock the message.
Billion to One has a picture of a Japanese man in some unknown location with a Japanese phrase on the side of the card. After someone purchased a hint, we discovered the man's name is Satoshi. Also, the Japanese text has been translated to the phrase, "Find Me." Other than that, that is about all that we know. Perplex City players have made a website to aid in the search for this person.
On the 12th of August (right around the corner), an event is taking place to add a new link to Perplex City through the Internet in San Francisco, CA. To advertise, the company who made the game, Mind Candy, posted this animated image below on BoingBoing (seen at PerplexWiki). However, for a split second, near the end of the animation is a braille message, shown below. We have translated the braille to read: "Say Goodbye to Perplex City." Will Perplex City be destroyed? Will the current link and the new link in San Francisco be severed? I imagine that the events in SF will help to wrap up this opening season of one of the greatest Alternate Reality Games ever!
The Thirteenth Labour is a RC5 encrypted message that requires decrypting by either guessing the key word, or using brute force to crack the message. In order to accomplish the brute force method, someone created a program that will allow multiple computers through the Internet to work together to find the key to unlock the message.
Billion to One has a picture of a Japanese man in some unknown location with a Japanese phrase on the side of the card. After someone purchased a hint, we discovered the man's name is Satoshi. Also, the Japanese text has been translated to the phrase, "Find Me." Other than that, that is about all that we know. Perplex City players have made a website to aid in the search for this person.
On the 12th of August (right around the corner), an event is taking place to add a new link to Perplex City through the Internet in San Francisco, CA. To advertise, the company who made the game, Mind Candy, posted this animated image below on BoingBoing (seen at PerplexWiki). However, for a split second, near the end of the animation is a braille message, shown below. We have translated the braille to read: "Say Goodbye to Perplex City." Will Perplex City be destroyed? Will the current link and the new link in San Francisco be severed? I imagine that the events in SF will help to wrap up this opening season of one of the greatest Alternate Reality Games ever!
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